Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Iran and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Tomorrow to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Prince Buster,
The Searchers,
The Toasters,
Bad Manners,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Bluetip,
Roxy Music,
Whodini,
Joyce Sims,
Kurtis Blow,
Pharoah Sanders,
Vainqueur,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Angry Samoans,
Eve St. Jones,
Visage,
The Fortunes,
Skarface,
DJ Style,
June of 44,
Boz Scaggs,
Soul II Soul,
Lightning Bolt,
Ohio Players,
Girls At Our Best!,
Section 25,
The Stooges,
Dead Boys,
Los Fastidios,
Soulsonic Force,
Delta 5,
the Soft Cell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Slits,
Thee Headcoats,
Robert Hood,
F. McDonald,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Seeds,
Lyres,
The Blues Magoos,
Rapeman,
Scrapy,
Freddie Wadling,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stetsasonic,
Rakim,
Bizarre Inc.,
Crispy Ambulance,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Thompson Twins,
Technova,
Average White Band,
Al Stewart,
Interpol,
The Birthday Party,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
MC5,
Crash Course in Science,
Kerri Chandler,
the Human League,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.